Seth Vidal wrote: >So, just to make sure I understand, yum doesn't work for you? > >You can't run: yum install bzflag2 tuxracer ? Good question, let's try it: $ yum install bzflag tuxracer You need to be root to perform this command. Oh dear! Fortunately I have root on this machine: $ su Password: # yum install bzflag tuxracer Setting up Install Process Setting up Repo: base ftp://janus/fc3/base/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-3, 'Temporary failure in name resolution')> Trying other mirror. Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: base failure: repodata/repomd.xml from base: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. # Oh dear! I'm not on a network. Seth Vidal also wrote: >On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 18:53 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >>How about: internet access only from work, monitored downloads, no CD >>burning permitted, small amount of web browsing tolerated? > >so how did the user get fedora to begin with!? >From a magazine cover CD? Via snail mail from a mail order supplier? One day everyone will have gigabit wireless networking everywhere. Until that happy day some people have to use computers with poor to non-existent network connectivity. Any solution that excludes them is incomplete. Ron
